Find your path: unconventional lessons from 36 leading scientists and engineers

By:

Goodman, Daniel

Publication details: The MIT Press 2019 Cambridge: Description: xvi, 389p. : ill. ; pb. ; 23cmISBN:

9780262537544

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

502.3 GOO

Summary: This insightful book offers essential life and career lessons for newly minted STEM graduates and those seeking a career change. Thirty six leading scientists and engineers (including two Nobel Prize winners) describe the challenges, struggles, successes, satisfactions, and U-turns encountered as they established their careers. Readers learn that there are professional possibilities beyond academia, as contributors describe the paths that took them into private industry and government as well as to college and university campuses. They discuss their varying preferences for solitary research or collaborative teamwork; their attempts to achieve work-life balance; and unplanned changes in direction that resulted in a more satisfying career. Women describe confronting overt sexism and institutional gender bias; scientists of color describe the experience of being outsiders in their field.

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This insightful book offers essential life and career lessons for newly minted STEM graduates and those seeking a career change. Thirty six leading scientists and engineers (including two Nobel Prize winners) describe the challenges, struggles, successes, satisfactions, and U-turns encountered as they established their careers. Readers learn that there are professional possibilities beyond academia, as contributors describe the paths that took them into private industry and government as well as to college and university campuses. They discuss their varying preferences for solitary research or collaborative teamwork; their attempts to achieve work-life balance; and unplanned changes in direction that resulted in a more satisfying career. Women describe confronting overt sexism and institutional gender bias; scientists of color describe the experience of being outsiders in their field.

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